Emergency Call Out
Accident and Emergency is crammed
While ambulances queue in the car park,
A triage nurse frets, trying to make work
This seized up system, regularly damned
By comfortable commentators who
Cite bed blocking elderly for lying
In hospital beds rather than dying.
Others claim they’d have more funds flowing through
To pay for enhanced social care, and yet
Every penny paid towards such cost
Is a unit of capital’s profit lost.
So stringent limits will always be set
Whichever party does the fashioning:
Whatever the need there’ll be rationing.
D. A.